As the new millennium approached, three innovative, entrepreneurial companies looked at the wind turbine marketplace and saw an opportunity to advance wind turbine blade pitch control.  These companies came together and pooled their resources in 2000 to form the business, then known as MLS Electrosystem.  Each of these successful companies brought their own credible and successful experience in sales & marketing in the gear and motor market place, engineering R&D in the servo control industry, and engineering & electronic manufacturing in the industrial electronic and servo control industries, respectively. 

In February of 2010, controlling interests of the company, were acquired by two of the original companies: the Matric Group located in Seneca, PA, and R2J Technologies located in Pittsburgh. The company was renamed Windurance.

Windurance began to listen closely to the wind turbine manufacturing market place and discern key improvement points in existing pitch systems in the wind turbine industry that eventually were incorporated into the Windurance base modular servo electronic pitch control system design presented to the market place.  This application specific base design for the large utility grade wind turbine market place was created initially for the European market.  A prototype was built for a Spanish turbine manufacturer. It was installed and proved to be very effective producing exceptional power curves compliant to requirements.  Today, there is over 1,800 MW of power being generated optimally through Windurance pitch systems worldwide.

The success of Windurance servo pitch control design lies in its dynamically matched components (gears, motors, batteries, cables and electronics) fit specifically for customer requirements and the wind turbine marketplace.  Continuous improvements in pitch control technologies have allowed Windurance to advance the state of pitch controls in the wind industry.

In 2008, Windurance moved into the 1300 Commerce Drive World Headquarters in Coraopolis (Moon Township). The new facility boasts an engineering and test lab, training facilities, ample conferencing and all within minutes of the Pittsburgh International Airport.

The quality management system for the company was certifiied to the ISO 9001:2008 standard in 2009. The certification ensures that Windurance is engineering and manufacturing their systems to the highest standards.

In 2010, the assets of Windurance were acquired by the Matric Group located in Seneca, PA and R2J Technoligies located in Pittsburgh, PA.

Bottom photo courtesy of DOE/NREL – Credit Green Mountain Power Corporation